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Welcome to the 2017 Annual Conference! Whether you are a Thank you to our convenings staff—under the leadership San Francisco native or a newbie, we all have an impression of Mimi Zarsky and Orchid Robinson, as well as our local of this city. This week, I invite you to join me in looking with site coordinator Sarah Guerra—who are extraordinary fresh eyes at the Bay Area, listening deeply to stories we stewards of this event. Thank you to all our local and national haven’t heard, seeking voices seldom offered the limelight, supporters who have made this conference possible. Thank and setting aside what we think we know to learn from, you to the amazing NPN/VAN staff and board who engage, reflect on, and celebrate San Francisco anew. shape, challenge, enrich, and inspire all our work. There are a few exciting changes, including Pláticas— Lastly, thank you to NPN/VAN's Partners, who are the self-organized conversation spaces for deeper discussion cornerstone of all our work; the artists, who are our raison and networking, a series of artist talks, the return of d'être; and to all our colleagues and peers who are taking In The Works, and the Knowledge Building Initiative’s time to be together this week. confessional booth! We hope you’ll make this your annual conference, keep We are thrilled to welcome so many local artists this year— these conversations, connections, and calls for action artist-artists, artists who don’t call themselves artists, moving throughout the coming year, and join us in artist-activists, and others who illuminate the world around Pittsburgh in 2018. us. And we are so grateful to all the local voices who have Welcome to San Francisco! We’re so glad to be here with you! planned, supported, guided, wrangled, and contributed to this year’s conference, especially our NPN/VAN Partner hosts around the Bay—Youth Speaks (San Francisco), La Peña (Berkeley), and MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (San Jose); our Live & On Stage host—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and dozens of Bay Area artists, Caitlin Strokosch arts leaders, activists, and community organizers on our President and CEO Local Host Committee. The Bay Area is a crucible for some of the most critical social concerns of our time and we aim to make space for challenging, messy, thoughtful, inspiring conversation and calls for action that lead us toward a more healthy and just world. For returning attendees, we appreciate your continued engagement. For those here for the first time—more than 30% of you!—thank you for your honest participation. Being face-to-face is powerful, as we dream new visions, invite accountability, and build joy together.
2 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Anti-Oppression Statement + Guiding Principles Meeting Agreements In alignment with NPN/VAN’s commitment to creating an We believe in… arts sector rooted in justice, we are committed to ensuring Creating a safer space: We ask all attendees to question a space that is free of racism, transphobia, homophobia, oppression openly, listen generously, and respect each ableism, misogyny, classism, or other bias. Our hope is other's personal boundaries and confidentiality. that all Annual Conference participants—whether leading a discussion, performing/presenting work, or simply Critical analysis without censorship: We encourage activities attending—both honor and accept a shared commitment and dialogues that reflect the challenging times in which to this ethic, and join us in a spirit of openness, learning, we find ourselves and we support artists’ opportunities to and respect. develop and show work without artistic compromise. We strive to make space where participants can take risks while At our conference—and throughout our work—we invite engaging each other in thoughtful critique. conversation and action that address racial and social justice. We recognize, too, that examining these issues takes a Complexity: We recognize the complex identities we each human toll and we wish to create a healthy environment in embody and do not assume or diminish other’s perspectives. which to do so. We have developed meeting agreements as Holding each other accountable: We aim for an environment well as protocol for addressing both interpersonal and event- where we respectfully call each other in, help each other wide reports of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, see our blind spots, and learn together how to move toward misogyny, classism, or other oppressions. more just and equitable words, actions, and practices. NPN/VAN strives to be an anti-racism, anti-oppression Making space for learning: Disagreement, discomfort, and organization, and we recognize this is an ongoing practice, vulnerability are essential for growth, while defensiveness rather than a box to be checked off. We welcome Partners, and dismissiveness inhibit learning. Allow yourself and colleagues, and peers to join us in learning, listening, and others time and space to reflect and grow. engaging together in this work. Thank you for joining us!
Welcome 3 The NPN/VAN Annual Conference is made possible, in part, with generous support from…
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, A Million Thanks to Bay Area Host Committee Bloomberg Philanthropies, Doris NPN/VAN Partner Hosts Idris Ackamoor, Co-Artistic Director, Duke Charitable Foundation, Walter Youth Speaks Cultural Odyssey & Elise Haas Fund, William and James Kass, Founder and Tamara Alvarado, ED, School of Arts & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Japan Executive Director Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza Foundation Center for Global Joan Osato, Producing Director Partnership, Japan-U.S. Friendship Marc Bamuthi Joseph, La Peña Cultural Center Commission, Lambent Foundation Chief of Program & Pedagogy, Bianca Torres, Co-Director Fund of Tides Foundation, Louisiana Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Division of the Arts, National Natalia Retamal, Co-Director Anyka Barber, Founder and Curator, Endowment for the Arts, Kenneth MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Betti Ono Gallery Rainin Foundation, San Francisco Arts Latino Americana) Commission, WESTAF, New Orleans Anjee Helstrup Alvarez, Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Jazz and Heritage Foundation Executive Director Manager, City of Oakland Joey Reyes, Curator of Engagement NPN and VAN Partners, and our Cece Carpio, Gallery Manager, San & Dialogue Friends, Colleagues, Partners & Francisco Arts Commission Galleries individual donors who all helped to make this Annual Conference a reality. Kevin Chen, Manager of Artist Studio and Public Programs, de Young Museum Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Marketing [Logos: Doris Duke, Ford, NEA, Joan Associate, Brava For Women in the Arts Mitchell, Warhol, Robert Sterling Clark, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Executive/ Artistic Director, RADAR Productions Sean Dorsey, Artistic Director, Sean Dorsey Dance & Fresh Meat Productions Lisa Evans, Artistic Engagement Support NPN/VAN Associate, Cal Shakes There are many opportunities to support the future Brian Freeman, Playwright, of our network at #ACSANFRANCISCO. Stop by the Director, Performer Donation Station at Registration to learn more.
4 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO In-Kind Support Annual Meeting Staff Melonie Green, Co-Executive Director, Almanac Beer Company Mimi Zarsky, Annual Conference Director African American Art & Artillery AG Culture Complex Orchid Robinson, Brava Theater Center Melorra Green, Co-Executive Director, Annual Conference Coordinator Distillery No. 209 African American Art & Sarah Guerra, Culture Complex Galería de la Raza NPN/VAN Bay Area Site Coordinator Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, Executive Good Vibrations Nick Huster, Annual Conference Intern Director, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana La Peña Cultural Center Ben Levine, Live & On Stage Production Manager Rhodessa Jones, Co-Artistic Director, Luz y Maya Cultural Odyssey Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Consultants Devi Peacock, Executive and Artistic Latino Americana (MACLA) Bryan Jeffrey Graham, Director, Peacock Rebellion Nakedwines.com Big Tada Inc (www.bigtada.com)
Anastacia Powers, Executive Director, Reem’s California The additional contributions of the Brava Theater Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art following people have helped make this Tomas Riley, Executive Director, Annual Meeting a success: San Francisco Travel CounterPulse NPN/VAN Board & Staff Tito’s Handmade Vodka Ani Rivera, Executive Director, Idea Forum organizers and participants Galería de la Raza Trader Joe’s Peer-2-Peer artist workshop facilitators Ernesto Sopprani, Executive Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Volunteers AIRSPACE Queer Pacific Film Archive Performance Residency Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Susanne Takehara, Executive Director, Youth Speaks EastSide Arts Alliance Virgie Tovar, Managing Director, Radar Productions Rio Yanez, Curator and Artist
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6 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE IN SAN FRANCISCO AT THESE VENUES: Parc 55 San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galería de la Raza PianoFight 55 Cyril Magnin St. 701 Mission St. 2857 24th St. 144 Taylor St.
The Hall Brava Theater Center African American Art & 1028 Market St. 2781 24th St. Culture Complex 762 Fulton St.
Detailed performing and visual arts info can be found in the “What to See” Section online and on the Guidebook App. SCHEDULESCHEDULE Thursday, December 14
Pre-Conference Activities at Parc 55, The Hall, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theater Center unless indicated; Keep your name badge with you—it grants you entry to all activities!!
8:30 am – 5:00 pm LANE Cohort Meeting Embarcadero, 3rd Fl Breakfast and Lunch provided This is a closed session for LANE Cohort members only. This day-long session is a gathering of the LANE Partners. It is the first intentional integration of both Alpha and Beta Cohort. During this meeting, Cohort members, consultants and initiative partners will engage in relationship building, peer exchange and leadership in changing times.
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Registration Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Fl, Hotel
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm #ACSANFRANCISCO Newbie Orientation Mission, 4th Fl, Hotel Welcome AC Newbie—what took you so long to get here?! This year’s Annual Conference is an excellent time to better get to know us (and have a great time in the process). It’s a first AC for more than a third of the attendees this year, so you’re in good company. NPN/VAN Staff, Board, Partners and Artists will be on hand to assist you in making new connections, getting the lay of the land, and getting a better sense of what you’ve gotten yourselves into!
Schedule: Thursday 7 Thursday, December 14 continued
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm NPN/VAN Partner Mingle (Partners only) The Hall The 1028 Market St. Directions (6-minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn right onto Cyril Magnin St; turn right onto Market St for 2 blocks—The Hall is on your right. We wanted to give our Partners some quality time together early in the weekend (did somebody say drinks?). Get yourselves over to The Hall to get huggy and happy. The first drink is on us!
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Dinner on Your Own in San Francisco! It’s San Francisco, y’all! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggestions.
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Opening Reception Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St. AND Galería de la Raza 2857 24th St. Directions (10 minutes by BART; 12 minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn right onto Cyril Magnin St; Walk half a block to the Powell St Bart station on your left; Board a “Daly City” or “SF Airport” train; Get off at 24th St Mission Station; Exit BART and head east on 24th St towards Capp St. Galería de la Raza is on the corner of 24th and Bryant; Brava is in the next on the corner of 24th and York. Ever wonder how you can be in 2 places at once? Our fashionably late Opening Reception welcomes you to two important Bay Area landmarks within one block of each other in the heart of the Mission District. Brava (www.brava.org/history/) has been showcasing the work of women artists since 1986, and Galería de la Raza (www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/ information/mission.html), a nonprofit community-based Latino arts organization, has been active as an interdisciplinary space for art, thought and activism since 1970. We’ll make sure that you visit both of these amazing spaces.
Annual Conference Rapid Response Team NPN/VAN takes seriously any reports of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, classism, or other oppressions. If an incident arises, attendees can reach out to a member of the Rapid Response Team, a team of colleagues who have generously volunteered their time. NPN/VAN recognizes that in inviting challenging conversations we also need to create a healthy environment to do so. We aim to align this work with the principles of transformative justice that seeks resolution and transformation together rather than punishment. We believe in listening to our colleagues and trust in the validity of their experience, without defensiveness or debate.
8 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Friday, December 15 The Community Care Space is available as First Full Day of Sessions at Parc 55; Live & On Stage Performances at needed for continuing Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Keep your name badge with you—it complex and challenging grants you entry to all activities!! dialogues that come out of convening sessions. Check at Registration or on the 8:00 am Continental breakfast Community Guidebook app for updated Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Fl, Hotel Care Space information. Davidson, 4th Fl 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Fl, Hotel
9:00 am – 10:30 am Opening Session Cyril Magnin Ballroom, 4th Fl Land Acknowledgement: Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone and Chumash. She is proud of her heritage, and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. Kanyon's art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Snag Magazine, and numerous school projects. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reindigenization, and to continue doing what she loves, Art. Welcome : President & CEO Caitlin Strokosch and the NPN/VAN Board Chair Abel Lopez
9:50 am ArtBurst Anu Yadav , Washington, DC Meena’s Dream (excerpt) By day, young Meena wishes her mother had the medicine she cannot afford. By night, Hindu God Lord Krishna entreats Meena’s help in the war against evil Worry Machine before it claims the universe. Meena’s Dream creates a fantastical world through storytelling and original music about the power of imagination to change the world. For Information & Booking: An u Yadav Anu [email protected] AnuYadav.com
10:15 am VANBurst Rondell Crier , Chattanooga, TN I practice social art making and creative placemaking through independently led creative projects. After being empowered personally and professionally as a youth through New Orleans’ YA/YA, I joined its staff as Creative Director, and learned how to be an arts administrator and a creative community leader. After Katrina, I landed in Chattanooga—a small river city with a special interest in discovering how artists can play a role in its transformation. This inspired me to establish roots there and continue my work as a creative individual making investments in people through “Studio Everything,” For Information & Booking: RondellCrier [email protected] www.rondellcrier.com Schedule: Thursday & Friday 9 Friday, December 15 continued
10:45 am – 12:45 pm In the Works! Back by popular demand, “In the Works!” provides a lively forum where Artists, NPN/ VAN Partners and Colleagues may present brief (1 minute) descriptions of new projects, at whatever stage of development. These projects could be new commissions or creative works that are currently being worked on and in need of collaborators, producers, and artistic guidance. GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION: • First come first served! We can only provide “air” time for the first 100 presenters • Interested attendees will be chosen at random from submitted forms, which must be dropped off at Registration by 10am on Friday, December 15 • Presenters have 1 minute to provide information about their projects—they will be timed!
12:45 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch on your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants within short walking distance.
12:45 pm – 2:30 pm VAN Lunch (VAN Partners and artists only) CornerChaat 138 Cyril Magnin St. Directions (4-minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn left onto Cyril Magnin St; walk less than 1 block to Ellis St; restaurant is across the street at the corner of Cyril Magnin and Ellis St
12:45 pm – 2:15 pm Pláticas : A Time to Connect Multiple Locations @ Parc 55; Check at Registration to sign up Pláticas, a term we learned from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, are self-organized conversation spaces. We encourage participants to gather for deeper discussion and networking, by self-organizing in one of our allocated Pláticas spaces. Conversations can take whatever form needed from networking and deeper dialogue to caucuses, peer learning and affinity groups. Folks can gather around topics, identity, geographies or art-making. Check at Registration to sign up for available spaces and an evolving list of conversations.
10 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Idea Forums (Choose One) Multiple Locations @ Parc 55 How We Tell Our Stories Lombard, 4th Fl Moderator: Stephanie McKee, Executive Artistic Director, Junebug Productions Participants: Rosy Simas, choreographer; Ill Invincible, performer, cultural worker, and community organizer; Dahlak Brathwaite, writer, performer, and educator Through its two-year Knowledge Building Initiative, NPN/VAN has been reflecting on, documenting, assessing and archiving its 32 years of work. This session asks how artists, Partners and colleagues can be a regular part of the archiving and documentation process to their own benefit, to the benefit of the NPN/VAN, and the greater field. What specific strategies, methodologies and platforms are we using for telling our story? On what terms do we designate our storytellers? Who controls those stories? How do these practices contribute to archiving and documentation? This session highlights specific methods of documentation and archiving, including digital storytelling, story circles, and other practices, and introduces participants to the specific platforms.
The Show Must Go On! Performing Arts Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Powell 1, 3rd Fl Moderator: Stephanie Atkins, Director of Local Programs in New Orleans, NPN/VAN Participants: Tom Clareson, Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) Project Director, LYRASIS’ Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services; Kristen Kern, Former Fine and Performing Arts Librarian, Portland State University, Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service representative, California Preservation Program representative; F. John Herbert, Executive Director, Legions Arts, Cedar Rapids; Tyese Wortham, Project Manager, Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) Performing Arts organizations can be especially vulnerable to disasters and emergencies of all kinds, resulting in destabilizing or catastrophic loss of income and assets. The new Performing Arts Readiness Project helps organizations nationwide learn how to protect their assets, sustain operations, and be prepared for emergencies through a grant program, educational opportunities, network-building, and tools. This session will provide background on resources available to help all types of performing arts organizations and artists to plan for disasters and emergencies. Panelists will focus on services to small and rural organizations, including some case studies, and two presenters will bring a California/ Western-U.S. perspective to the panel.
#QTPOC and #TRANS Voices in Dance & Theater: From Margin to Center Mission 2+3, 4th Fl Participants: Sean Dorsey, Artistic Director, Sean Dorsey Dance and Fresh Meat Productions; Devi Peacock, Executive and Artistic Director, Peacock Rebellion; Leesha Zieber, Dancer; Toby McNutt, Dance Educator and Choreographer This idea forum will bring together dancemakers, dancers, theater artists and cultural workers from TPOC, transgender & gender nonconforming communities to lead a conversation about transforming Dance and Theater Arts. What radical change is needed to transform the Arts and to center TPOC (trans people of color), trans, and gender nonconforming artists and leadership? Are you currently centering TPOC, GNC and transpeople in your presenting season / theater / venue / workplace / studio / artistic ensemble / nonprofit / funding docket? YES? Join us! NO? Join us! Everyone is welcome: especially if you’re nervous, especially if this is new to you, and especially if you’re passionate about racial & trans & gender justice.
Schedule: Friday 11 Friday, December 15 continued
Funding Arts & Social Change in the Bay Area Cyril Magnin Ballroom 2+3, 4th Fl Moderator: Ted Russell, Associate Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures; Kenneth Rainin Foundation Participants: Tom DeCaigny, San Francisco Arts Commission; Vanessa Camarena-Arrendondo, Akonadi Foundation; Margot Melcon, Zellerbach Family Foundation; Vanessa Whang, Trustee, The Whitman Institute Funders from the Bay Area come together to talk about supporting arts and social change. What are the critical social needs their funding addresses? Where are there gaps in the local funding landscape? How are Bay Area arts funders thinking critically about being responsive and responsible to local communities in times of rapid change?
Building Bridges in Resistance Art Cyril Magnin Ballroom 1, 4th Fl Participants: Paul S. Flores, Playwright, Performer, Producer, 1972 Productions, San Francisco; Armando Castellano, music artist, San Jose; Natalie Aceves, dance artist, San Francisco; Delina Patrice Brooks, dance artist, actress, San Francisco Demographic and political changes in the US have made a priority of creating and presenting art that challenges racial and social hierarchies. Even with presenters with little connection to racial justice or resistance movements, the interest is growing. How do performing artists reach non-conventional audiences to support movement building and solidarity? How is our art providing solutions to social problems? How do artists build relationships with presenters who may not represent our communities, but who value racial and social justice? This panel will feature three artists of color in music, theater and dance who integrate social justice, ethnic identity and gender themes into their projects. We will discuss how identity creates expectations around our art and how we work with or against that. We will share experiences and strategies based on Creation Fund projects developed with non-conventional audiences, and our work with presenters who are different from our community alliances.
LANE: Learning, Leveraging and Leadership Fillmore, 4th Fl Participants: Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (Seattle, WA), MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana MACLA (San Jose CA), The Myrna Loy Center (Helena MT), Su Teatro (Denver CO), Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville TN), Junebug Productions (New Orleans LA). The LANE Alpha Cohort began its four-year journey in MAY 2016. This year and a half has been filled with organizational support through consultancy, new tools, learning through experimentation and knowledge building. Each organization will share information and ongoing questions based on their experience. The Cohort is excited to share their individual and collective learnings. Cohort members are Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (Seattle, WA), Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana—MACLA (San Jose CA), The Myrna Loy Center (Helena MT), Su Teatro (Denver CO), Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville TN) and Junebug Productions (New Orleans LA).
12 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Artists & Displacement: Addressing the Complex Identities of Place Market Street, 3rd Fl Moderator: Rebeka Rodriguez, Civic Engagement Manager, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Participants: Hanmin Liu, President, Wildflowers Institute; Betty Marin, Artist, Los Angeles; Laura Zabel, Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts As communities across the United States face displacement of various kinds—physical, economic, and cultural—expectations are high for artists and arts organizations to be responsive and responsible to the communities in which they reside. Most communities have multiple identities that were originally shaped by their indigenous populations and have been since added to by generations of immigration and migration. Understanding these complex identities of place is critical to effectively navigating the tension between preservation and growth that comes with honoring a community’s cultural heritages, investing in its present residents, and welcoming future opportunities. Three advocates discuss their cultural strategies for combatting displacement.
National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation: The Next Generation Mission 1, 4th Fl Co-Facilitators: Meena Natarajan, Executive/Literary Director, Pangea World Theater; Andrea Assaf, Artistic/Executive Director, Art2Action Inc. Participants: Dipankar Mukherjee, Artistic Director, Pangea World Theater; Dora Arreola, Artistic Director, Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro / Associate Professor, University of South Florida (USF); Linda Parris-Bailey, Executive and Artistic Director, The Carpetbag Theatre Inc. Other artists at NPN who have attended the National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation are invited to join! In Summer 2017, Art2Action and Pangea World Theater launched the first iteration of the “Next Generation Institute,” a component of the National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation. This practice-based session will engage our bodies, minds and creative spirits in an experiential report-out, exploring the challenges of teaching cultural and gender equity, and the confluence of practices emerging from artists of color, women directors and LGBTQ2 artists working in contemporary theater. We'll take a fun, participatory approach to articulating aesthetic differences, and discuss approaches to supporting emerging directors, including mentorship and training. We’ll share learnings from the 2017 Institute series, and explore new directions together.
Schedule: Friday 13 Friday, December 15 continued
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm Ten-Minute Art Talks Cyril Magnin Ballroom, 4th Fl We thought it would be interesting to ask Bay Area artists to tell us about themselves, their art, and how their lives and work intersect with activism—and to do it in 10 minutes. So we did! Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chief of Program and Pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, will emcee the session. Melonie and Melorra Greene: Twins Melonie and Melorra hail from Memphis, and have been San Francisco residents for 17 years. They’re the new Co-Executive Directors of the African American Art & Culture Complex, as well as artivists, curators, and radio show hosts of KPOO's The Ibeji Lounge. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and a winner of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. A recipient of three NPN Creation fund commissions, he currently serves as Chief of Program and Pedagogy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Ana Teresa Fernandez: I learned to see and experience the world growing up in Mexico. Now, as a citizen of this earth, I choose to spend half my in water, mostly surfing, because the sea awakens me to different parts of myself. It teaches me to listen to it carefully so I can dance and battle with it more gracefully. In turn, when I am on land, I do the same, except I attempt to keep making those waves, creating swells of feelings within people that move them to think critically or instigate a new way of seeing. anateresafernandez.com
5:20 pm ArtBurst Douglas Ridloff , New York City Transients & Deafpool ASL and signed languages are imbued with cinematic characteristics. My poetry combines the visual language of ASL with language of the cinema to create a new form, cinespace. For Information & Booking: Douglas Ridloff, NYC [email protected] 917-593-7478
14 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm San Francisco Dine Arounds #1 (Optional) Meet your dining companions in the Cyril Magnin Foyer on the 4th Floor in the Parc 55. We made your dinner plans for you! If you are looking for dinner companions, sign up at Registration to share an intimate dining experience with other AC attendees. Groups will be escorted by one of our awesome AC Bay Area Host Committee Members, who will take you to their favorite local haunts. Interesting conversation will be required.
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Dinner on Your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants in San Francisco and within short walking distance of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm LIVE & ON STAGE PERFORMANCES #LiveAndOnStage Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. Kindly arrive on time, and make sure you have your name badge for theater entry Directions (15-minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn right onto Cyril Magnin St; cross Market St (Cyril Magnin becomes 5th Street) and 1 block to Mission Street; turn left onto Mission Street and walk 2 blocks. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is on the right. Featured Artists: Vincent E. Thomas (ArtBurst): Prayer (opening from "What's Going On"), Baltimore, MD Guerrilla Rep: Mommy Queerest , San Francisco DelinaDream Productions : An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers Black , Oakland Star Amerasu : Rebecca, Berkeley AXIS Dance Company : Divide, Oakland Ryan Nicole Austin : If You Give a Black Girl a Lemon, Oakland
11:00 pm – 2:00 am The Sweet Suite Parc 55 Hotel More info about access is at Registration and in the Guidebook app We provide the space for spontaneous hanging out; you provide the conversation.
Schedule: Friday 15 Saturday, December 16
The Community Care Second Full Day of Sessions at Parc 55; Live & On Stage Performances at Yerba Space is available as Buena Center for the Arts; Late Night @ PianoFight. Keep your name badge needed for continuing with you—it grants you entry to all activities!! complex and challenging dialogues that come out of 8:00 am – 11:00 am NPN/VAN Partner Meeting convening sessions. Check Cyril Magnin Ballroom, 4th Fl, Hotel at Registration or on the Guidebook app for updated Annual business meeting for NPN and VAN Community Care Spaceinformation. Partners, NPN/VAN Board and Staff. Davidson, 4th Fl Continental Breakfast provided
9:00 am – 2:00 pm Registration Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Fl, Hotel
10:00 am – Noon Peer-2-Peer Workshops for Artists: Multiple Locations Parc 55 (Choose One) This year, we have 4 amazing Peer-2-Peer sessions, developed by and for attending artists.
Career Hacks and Self Care for Working Artists Fillmore, 4th Fl Facilitator: Scott Turner Schofield, performing artist, Los Angeles Go deep with your peers, find out you’re not the only one who doesn’t know how to budget, share your hacks, and learn new skills. Together we’ll create a tool kit—from social media best practices, to writing that intro email to the Programming Coordinator, to how to practice meditation on tour, and get some perspective when the grants aren’t coming through. The point is to fuel you so you can move forward with more power. You have a powerful influence, and the way you do things may be valuable to others. Bring your experience and co-create this one.
Juggling Jobs and Being Resourceful Mission 2+3, 4th Fl Facilitators: Visual artists Aisha Bell, NYC and Rondell Crier, Chattanooga, TN Visual artists Aisha Bell and Rondell Crier will share personal stories of how they juggle multiple jobs while practicing their art, followed by an open discussion about the inherent strengths and challenges associated with undertaking multiple roles. Discussion will address creative and innovative approaches to managing these realities, while trying to answer the question “How can we employ our creativity to discover resourceful ways of reducing our workloads?”
What I learned from Teaching in Communities of Color Hearst, 4th Fl Facilitator: Raissa Simpson, Artistic Director, PUSH Dance Company, San Francisco This participatory workshop will share tactics in building relationships beyond the classroom and forming a peacemaking environment for students to learn and grow. Through a collective discussion, participants can expect to find support for teaching the Arts in schools, best practices for conducting active participation, and community building. This workshop will also touch upon mitigating chronic stress and silent trauma found in Communities of Color through artistic practice and materials. This session is limited to the first 20 participants.
16 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Thinking Outside the Box: Teaching & Performing in Non-Traditional Spaces Lombard, 4th Fl Facilitators: Performing artists Jennifer Newman, Brooklyn and Lida Winfield, Shelburne, VT How do artists and arts educators respond to places and people? Lida and Jennifer invite you to bring your experiences and questions concerning performing and teaching in nontraditional spaces. We will discuss and share with hands on application, best practices with regards to adapting, responding to, and learning from environment and varying populations.
Noon – 1:30 pm Lunch on Your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants within short walking distance.
Noon – 1:30 pm Pláticas : A Time to Connect Multiple Locations @ Parc 55; Check at Registration to sign up Pláticas, a term we learned from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, are self-organized conversation spaces. We encourage participants to gather for deeper discussion and networking, by self-organizing in one of our allocated Pláticas spaces. Conversations can take whatever form needed from networking and deeper dialogue to caucuses, peer learning and affinity groups. Folks can gather around topics, identity, geographies or art-making. Check at Registration to sign up for available spaces and an evolving list of conversations.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Idea Forums (Choose One) Multiple Locations @ Parc 55
Trump, the Arts, and Where Do We Go From Here? Cyril Magnin Ballroom 1, 4th Fl Participants: Ted Russell, Associate Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures; Kenneth Rainin Foundation; Marc Vogl, Principal, Vogl Consulting, LLC, former Program Officer, Performing Arts Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Marcelle Hinand, Principal, M. Hinand Consulting, former Arts Program Director, James Irvine Foundation Description: What are artists, arts administrators, educators and advocates most concerned about when it comes to the Trump administration? How are artists responding to a sea- change in national politics through their work? When it comes to the direct and indirect effects on cultural expression flowing from Washington, which arts organizations and communities are likely to be most vulnerable, and which are better positioned to adapt? In early 2017 a group of Bay Area arts-consultants (and former foundation program officers) polled over 1,000 artists and culture workers from 45 states and interviewed two-dozen culture sector leaders on these questions. In a moderated discussion, consultants, panelists will share their findings and engage attendees on these topics. The conversation will be informed by conference participants providing personal testimony to the impact of the Trump administration on their art-making and strategies of response and resilience.
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Aesthetics of Impact / Impact of Aesthetics Embarcadero, 3rd Fl Facilitator: Pam Korza, Co-director, Animating Democracy Participants: Sage Crump, Complex Movements Producer; ill weaver, Complex Movements, artist; Andrea Assaf, Artistic/Executive Director, Art2Action Inc.; Mark Valdez, Independent Artist/Consultant What makes Arts for Change work excellent? Arts for Change, including projects at the intersection of artistic creation and civic engagement, community development, and justice, often challenge the conventional terms by which the arts are described and assessed. The new framework Aesthetic Perspectives, developed by artists and allies in Animating Democracy’s Evaluation Learning Lab, describes 11 attributes of excellence that contribute to artistic potency and social and civic effectiveness. This interactive session will introduce the framework and bring the attributes to life, exploring their potential value and application for presenters and artists. The artist collective, Complex Movements, shares how artists used the framework to critically look at creative choices and outcomes of Beware of the Dandelions, an organizing project and multimedia installation/workshop exploring connections between complex science and justice movements. We’ll discuss the framework's potential for interrogating implicit biases and inequities in the field, foregrounding aesthetic dimensions of the work.
Intersectional Data: Are We Asking the Right Questions? Mission 2+3, 4th Fl Facilitator: Kevin Seaman—Director, Bring Your Own Queer (BYOQ); 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader; lead consultant of the 5-year National Queer Arts Festival audience survey report Participants: Anh Thang Dao-Shah, Senior Policy Analyst, San Francisco Arts Commission; Mona Webb, Queer Cultural Center; Michelle Higgins, Community Engagement Manager, DataArts Data has proven to be an asset to drive artistic decision-making and reveal trends amongst our constituents and in the larger arts field. But is there information we miss out on because we aren’t asking the right questions? How can we frame questions that best document the complexity of intersectional identity? And can the applications of this data reach beyond our individual organizations to affect positive change within our communities? Join artist and arts consultant Kevin Seaman as he unpacks six years of data collected from the Bay Area’s National Queer Arts Festival and facilitates a discussion among data experts working on the front lines of cultural equity.
Oral Tradition, Music, Dance, and Song in African Diasporic Liberation and Civil Rights Struggle Past And Present Lombard, 4th Fl Participants: Don Harrell and Tutu Harrell, Artists/Producers, Orisirisi African Folklore; Sikuru Adepoju and Sunny Eselekhomhen, Musicians, Osirisi African Folklore This session is a facilitated discussion of oral tradition, music, dance, and visual art as agents of change in the liberation and civil rights struggle in the African Diaspora, past and present. We’ll be featuring both traditional and contemporary creative expressions, and well- researched scholarly data.
18 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Staging the Anti-Immigrant Hysteria in the United States of Amnesia Powell 1, 3rd Fl Moderator: Alec DeLeon, Program Specialist, NPN/VAN Participants: Anu Yadav, Performing Artist; Abel Lopez, Associate Director, GALA Hispanic Theater; Tony Garcia, Director, Su Teatro; Jose Torres-Tama, Artistic Director, Jose Torres- Tama & Arte Futuro Productions; Leilani Chan, Artistic Director, TeAda Productions, based in LA and Hawai’i Description: The current administration offers a clear and present danger with a Republican presidential candidate who rose to power by blatantly pimping fear of immigrants to “Make America Hate Again!” The human expulsion machine run by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents is in full operation, and deportations have risen an estimated 40%, breaking up thousands of families. Who are the theater practitioners, organizations, and artists in the NPN family staging projects that confront the anti-immigrant hysteria gripping the country? How can we be engaged in humanizing immigrants whether Muslim, Mexican or "others" outside of the Euro-centric plantation paradigm vilified as "illegal aliens"? The United States of Amnesia seduces it's citizens to embrace forgetting, and artists, organizers, and presenters need to remember that this is nothing new in a long disturbing legacy of vilifying people of color. Ironically, it's the Europeans who are the first illegal aliens in the Americas, and like Columbus and his three ships, the Pilgrims arrived without papers and began exacting genocide and transforming the land into property. Let's be radical and dare to remember— calling out the lies passing for truth.
Indigenous Estate Powell 2, 3rd Fl Participants: Thomas LaBlanc-Dakota, Director, Oyate Hotanin; Meena Natarajan, Executive/ Literary Director, Pangea World Theater; Dipankar Mukherjee, Artistic Director, Pangea World Theater There is mass fake American Indian Art, in the Southwest and world markets. A huge business that’s organized by non-natives, it comes with high penalties that aren't enough to put a stop to it, and it’s putting native craft artisans and families out of business. Despite a law regulated by the Department of the Interior, there is continued abuse, in spite of years of protests and resistance. It continues to be a source of institutional racism in the face of the native people. Oyate Hotanin is receiving McKnight funding to begin community meeting in the Indigenous Community, mainly artists, art organization, funders, and major art institutions to come up with ideas and thoughts on this subject. Art is healing to us and art should not be terrorizing us. This workshop will address: Who owns this property? Who has the rights and who can censor or affect art?
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The Real I.C.E.: International Cultural Equity—Multiple Perspectives on Global Justice and Culture Cyril Magnin Ballroom 3, 4th Fl Participants: Lorena Moran, Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras, Los Angeles, CA; Anthony Brown, Jazz Artist/Scholar, Berkeley, CA; Torange Yeghiazarian, Golden Thread Productions, San Francisco, CA; and Alicia Laguna, Teatro Linea de Sombra, Mexico City, Mexico, among others from the Bay area and abroad. In the United States, the terms justice and equity are specifically nuanced to the complex nationazl cultural realities and politics, and carry particular meaning. What happens when we approach issues of racial and social justice internationally with artistic collaborators and partners? What does cultural equity mean in communities outside of the United States who are confronting social justice inequities in radically different economic, social and political circumstances? What are the transnational similar and varied strategies among culture workers engaging in social justice through the arts? Through a facilitated group discussion among local, national and international artists and culture workers, this forum aims to surface and discuss a spectrum of definitions and examples of how justice manifests globally.
Starting Collective Spaces Mission 1, 4th Fl Participants: Devi Peacock, Executive and Artistic Director, Peacock Rebellion, San Francisco; Jeff Becker, Co-Founder Catapult, New Orleans; Keith Hennessy, Artist, San Francisco; Alyah Baker Qulture Collective, Oakland; Nick Slie, Co-Founder Catapult/Mondo Bizarro, New Orleans; Cece Carpio, Trust your Struggle, San Francisco/ NYC Wouldn’t it be wonderful if performers, visual artists, activists and collaborators with similar values and practices working in the same city could pool their resources to create collective spaces for dreaming, developing and sharing new projects, a space that not just supports and nurtures its members but becomes a vital asset to the community? Join artists Jeff Becker and Nick Slie from “Catapult,” a collective performance laboratory in New Orleans along with Lisa Evans from “Peacock Rebellion,” a collective of Bay Area -based, queer + trans people of color, and crew of artist-activist and healers, San Francisco artist, Keith Hennessy, co-founder of “848 Community Space” that has evolved into “Counter PULSE” a space that provides resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators,,Alyah Baker from “Qulture Collective”, a multi-use space and queer community platform in downtown Oakland,and Cece Carpio from “Trust your Struggle”, an artist collective of visual artists, educators, and cultural workers dedicated to social justice and community activism, in an open discussion on how these collectives began and continue to thrive. We will focus on how having a space has affected the practice and work of its members and the community it serves.
20 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Decolonizing Aesthetics and Curatorial Practices in Dance: A guided discussion to identify collective first steps in making a difference. Fillmore, 4th Fl Participants: Michèle Steinwald, Independent Curator and Writer; Dr. Ananya Chatterjea, Artistic Director, Ananya Dance Theatre This workshop will begin with an acknowledgement that all contemporary aesthetics emerge from specific locations. We will examine invisible cultural biases. We will identify the issues around historically centered whiteness in order to decolonize our inherited curatorial practices. Based in Bryan Brayboy's motto of the Four Rs, together we will discuss how to build "Relationships based on Respect and Reciprocity, and taking seriously our Responsibility" when supporting artists and their work. This is a participatory workshop, and we hope to parse out the complex issues that hold our field hostage through dialogue.
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm LIVE & ON STAGE PERFORMANCES #LiveAndOnStage Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. Kindly arrive on time, and make sure you have your name badge for theater entry. Directions (15-minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn right onto Cyril Magnin St; cross Market St (Cyril Magnin becomes 5th Street) and 1 block to Mission Street; turn left onto Mission Street and walk 2 blocks. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is on the right. Featured Artists: Rotimi Agbabiaka : Type/Caste, San Francisco Embodiment Project : Ancient Children, San Francisco Echo Brown : Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters, Oakland Campo Santo : H.O.M.E (Hookers On Mars Eventually), San Francisco San
7:00 pm Dinner on Your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants.
7:30 pm San Francisco Dine Arounds #2 (Optional) Meet your dining companions in the Cyril Magnin Lobby on the 4th Floor in the Parc 55. This is your last chance to have dinner with a random, yet guaranteed delightful, group of AC attendees! Sign up at Registration; groups will be escorted by one of our awesome AC Bay Area Host Committee Members, who will take you to their favorite local haunts. Interesting conversation will be required.
#PunchDrunkLove Join us in the Sweet Suite from 7–9 pm for Rosie's famous Rum Punch! Grab a glass and go for just $10 (cash only; all proceeds go to NPN/VAN).
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9:30 pm – Midnight Late Night, Powered by Youth Speaks! PianoFight 144 Taylor St. Please navigate this area with intention, and in groups—especially at night. Directions (10-minute walk): Exit the hotel and turn left onto Cyril Magnin St for the rest of the block; turn left onto Ellis St for 2 blocks; turn left onto Taylor St for 1.5 blocks) Powered by the mighty Youth Speaks www.youthspeaks.org and hosted at the eclectic PianoFight just around the corner from the hotel, the Bay welcomes you to a late evening of good food, good spirits and an array of astonishing performances from local artists. From sultry club singers, indie folk—contemporary dance to hip hop, poetry and music, the night is hosted by MC Dahlak Brathwaite, accompanied by the skillful sounds of DJ Wonway Possibul and Dion Decibels spinning on the ones and twos. PianoFight is a community-driven indy arts venue that takes pride in partnering with local artists to make great shows, mouth watering eats and delicious cocktails adding up to a uniquely San Francisco experience. Featured Performances Include: Wonway Posibul (Juan Amador) is an Dion Reiner-Guzman, better known as Dion emcee, deejay, actor, and culture cultivator. Decibels, was born into music and currently www.facebook.com/wonway- tours with Dahlak Brathwaite's Spiritrials as a posibul-95856663178/ musical collaborator and performer. BOOKING: [email protected] www.diondecibels.com BOOKING: [email protected] STEAMROLLER Dance Company began in 1993, when a loosely knit group of Shawna Virago is a transgender trickster artists came together to create guerrilla celebrated for her striking lyric-based songs. performances to address the spread of HIV/ www.shawnavirago.com AIDS to other communities (women, people BOOKING: [email protected] of color). The company is currently under the Dahlak Brathwaite is a multi-faceted hip- direction of founding member Jesselito Bie. hop artist that maximizes his abilities as www.facebook.com/STEAMROLLER-Dance- musician, actor, poet, and educator within Company-263568340385198/ the transformational space of the theater. BOOKING: [email protected] BOOKING: www.thisisdahlak.com and Jenay "ShinobiJaxx" Anolin is an artist, Joan Osato, [email protected] and educator, trainer and performer born and 11:00 pm – 2:00 am Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a Pushcart Prize raised in the awesome city of Oakland, nominated writer, performer and standup The Sweet Suite California. She is founder of Mix’d Ingrdnts, a comedian, named one of the 13 Top Bay Area Parc 55 Hotel multi-ethnic and diverse collective of female Writers to Watch in 2016. artists working together through urban More info about baruchporrashernandez.wordpress.com performance, dance education and connection. access is at Regis- BOOKING: [email protected] tration and in the www.mixdingrdnts.com Guidebook app BOOKING: [email protected] Josh Healey is an award-winning writer, performer, and creative activist who fuses his Alphabet Rockers make music that makes We provide the distinct storytelling style with a subversive change. Known as the preeminent children's space for spon- humor and fiery love for justice. hip hop artists to focus on social change and taneous hanging BOOKING: joshhealey.org out; you provide racial justice, they are consciousness in motion. the conversation. www.alphabetrockers.com BOOKING: [email protected]
22 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, December 17 The Community Care Third Full Day of Sessions at Parc 55; Culture Tours in the city and Space is available as and beyond; Closing Party @ African American Art & Culture Complex. Keep needed for continuing your name badge with you—it grants you entry to all activities!! complex and challenging dialogues that come out of 10:00 am – 11:50 am Art Slam! convening sessions. Check Cyril Magnin Ballroom, 4th Fl at Registration or on the Community Guidebook app for updated The ArtSlam! is an opportunity to Care Space information. experience a vast array of artist's work in a Davidson, 4th Fl short amount of time. Eighteen artists from across the county will share their work and talk about what inspires them.
10:30 am ArtBurst Thalma De Freitas , Los Angeles, CA Alforria AfroBrazilian Freitas presents Alforria, a musical monologue about freedom of thought in the era of mass distraction. For Information & Booking: Thalma de Freitas [email protected] www.thalmadefreitas.com
11:50 am – 1:00 pm Closing Session Cyril Magnin Ballroom, 4th Fl Ten-Minute Art Talks We’ll hear two more artists talk about themselves, their art, and how their lives and work intersect with activism. Sharon Bridgforth: A Doris Duke Performing Artist, Sharon is a writer that collaborates with actors, dancers, singers and audiences live during performance as she composes moving soundscapes of her non-linear texts. A New Dramatists alumna, Sharon has received funding from The Whitman Institute, Creative Capital, and MAP Fund; her work has been supported by NPN since 1993. Brandon Santiago: A Puerto Rican Poet, radical educator, radio host, and San Francisco native, Brandon has been featured on programs such as Tedx Sand Univision's Despierta America. Brandon started as a youth participant and intern at Youth Speaks over 10 years ago, and today serves as Youth Speaks Program Director.
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12:30 pm ArtBurst Thom Pasculli , Chicago, IL The Brink! Or a Ritual of Bad Sounds (excerpt) The Brink! Or a Ritual of Bad Sounds is part of Walkabout Theater's upcoming experimental cabaret. Supported by the NPN Creation Fund, the work will premiere at Chicago’s Links Hall in March 2018. For Information & Booking: Walkabout Theater [email protected] www.walkabouttheater.org Land Acknowledgement: Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone and Chumash. She is proud of her heritage, and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. Kanyon's art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Snag Magazine, and numerous school projects. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reindigenization, and to continue doing what she loves, Art. Closing Remarks
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Lunch on your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants in the area.
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pláticas : A Time to Connect Multiple Locations @ Parc 55; Check at Registration to sign up Pláticas, a term we learned from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, are self-organized conversation spaces. We encourage participants to gather for deeper discussion and networking, by self-organizing in one of our allocated Pláticas spaces. Conversations can take whatever form needed from networking and deeper dialogue to caucuses, peer learning and affinity groups. Folks can gather around topics, identity, geographies or art-making. Check at Registration to sign up for available spaces and an evolving list of conversations.
2:30 pm – 6:00 pm Bay Area Culture Tours Meet your tour groups in the designated area of the hotel—please be ON TIME! Now’s your chance to get out of the hotel and explore San Francisco and beyond. We have provided several organized tours—check at Registration for availability and to sign up. And if you prefer your adventures to be self-guided, see below for some cool apps to download that can advise you.
2:30 pm East Bay Art Tour (Closed to pre-registrants!) Meet in the street level lobby at the hotel; this group will leave at 2:45pm and take the BART!! Hop the BART with your fellow attendees to check out some of the amazing East Bay artist/ activists who are doing important work in the East Bay. Join us to visit the studios of Bay Area artists Brett Cook (brett-cook.com) and Dignidad Rebelde (dignidadrebelde.com), winding up at longtime NPN Partner La Peña Cultural Center.
24 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO 2:45 pm 24th Street Mural Walk (Closed to pre-registrants!) Meet in the Cyril Magnin Foyer on the 4th floor at the hotel; this group will leave by bus at 3pm!! Guided by Rio Yanez, 2nd generation San Francisco artist, this cultural and historic walking tour will explore the vibrant stretch of 24th Street in the heart of SF's Mission District, home to hundreds of colorful artworks featuring themes from cultural heritage to social political statements. Get an inside perspective of the history, process, politics, and drama behind the amazing murals and street art of the 24th street corridor. Stops will include prominent neighborhood murals, galleries, and shops.
3:00 pm "Embodied Awareness: Re-Viewing Diversity and Inclusion; What our Facilities are Really Saying About Us” Meet in the Cyril Magnin Foyer on the 4th floor at the hotel; This group will leave at 3:15pm!! Let Madison Cario—Director, Office of the Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology, artist, alchemist, guide & interrupter creating in the spaces "in between"—guide you on a walking tour starting at the Parc 55 Hotel, traveling through the surrounding Union Square area and ending up at SFMOMA and YBCA Gardens to explore how to identify and mitigate the psychological, emotional, and physical reactions that occur in response to physical space. We will talk and travel; we will laugh and play. Sign up at Registration!
2:45 pm SFMOMA Guided Tour “Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules @ SFMOMA” Join Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Performance & Film at SFMOMA, and Olive Bieringa, principal at BodyCartography Project, for an introduction to the Museum’s exhibition Robert Rasuchenberg: Erasing the Rules & its related programming. Bieringa will discuss BodyCartography Project pieces presented in conjunction with the show, and will guide participants in the “how to” of action movie, a movement for one performer and one audience member. Free Apps to Download for Self-Guided Touring: • GPSmyCity • • Detour—Immersive Audio Tours • SFArts Express
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Dinner on Your Own in San Francisco! Check the Local Guide at the back of this schedule—and on the Guidebook App—for a list of suggested restaurants.
8:30 pm – 11:30 pm Dance Party with Chulita Vinyl Club! Featuring a Dance-Off you won't want to miss! African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC) 762 Fulton St. Refreshments & Bar / Shuttle available for return to hotel Located in the historic Fillmore Jazz District, AAACC is one of the premier African American arts and cultural institutions in the Bay Area. The only City-owned arts and cultural center in San Francisco, AAACC nurtures and facilitates the empowerment of the community through Afro-centric artistic and cultural expression, education, and programming. We invite you to get your groove on to the stylings of Chulita Vinyl Club (chulitavinylclub.com), an all-girl all-vinyl club for self-identifying womxn of color in the context of providing a space for empowerment and togetherness. Schedule: Sunday 25 AREA MAP map key
A Parc 55 San Francisco F PianoFight 55 Cyril Magnin St. 144 Taylor St. Hotel and Sessions Late Night, Powered by Youth Speaks!
B Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) G African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC) 701 Mission St. 762 Fulton St. Live & On Stage Performances Closing Dance Party with Chulita Vinyl Club
C The Hall H Powell St. BART Station 1028 Market St. 899 Market St. NPN/VAN Partner Mingle Transportation
D Galería de la Raza I 24th St Mission BART Station 2857 24th St. 2800 Mission St. Opening Reception Transportation
E Brava Theater Center J San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2781 24th St. 51 3rd St. Opening Reception Culture Tour
26 NPN/VAN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO hotel J sf moma A pianofight F B H ybca bart station C the hall
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Things to Remember in San Francisco As in all cities, use common sense, be aware of your surroundings and be intentional when walking, especially at night. We recommend walking in groups, particularly when you walk to and from PianoFight, the Late Night venue which is just around the corner. Also, take a tip from a local: Don’t be on your phone as you navigate the city!
Getting Around San Francisco www.sftravel.com/article/how-get-around-san- Getting to and from San Francisco International and francisco-transportation-basics Oakland Airport BART rapid rail is the fastest and least expensive way to BART is the best way to get around San Francisco and get to San Francisco from SFO or the Oakland Airport. the East Bay. www.sftravel.com/sponsor/bay-area-rapid-transit Download the free BART or the Easy BART app to help you navigate! Ride-Shares: Lyft, Uber, Flywheel (flywheeltaxi.com)
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Food & Drink
There are so many great restaurants Barnzu in San Francisco and the Bay Area, it’s 711 Geary St difficult to suggest just a few. We’ve 415-525-4985 pulled together a few that are within www.barnzu.com convenient travel time from the hotel Contemporary Korean bar snacks and from activities taking place over Hours: Tue-Th 5:30pm-11:00pm, the weekend. F-Sat 5:30pm-Midnight, Sun 5:30pm- 11:00pm, Closed Monday Check these websites for more suggestions: Café de la Presse www.sf.eater.com 352 Grant Ave www.sfbg.com 415-398-2680 www.eastbayexpress.com www.cafedelapresse.com Contemporary twist on the old-world French Bistro Restaurants Near Hours: breakfast, lunch and dinner Parc 55 Hotel 7:30am-9:00pm
Farmer Brown Convenient food courts with multiple 25 Mason St @ Market St choices in one place: 415-409-3276 www.farmerbrownsf.com Metreon San Francisco soul food 135 4th St Hours: M-F 8am–2pm, 5pm–9pm, Sat- Great food court with lots Sun 10am–2:30pm, 5pm–10pm of great options (including Filipino, burgers and more!) John’s Grill 63 Ellis St (b/t 4th St & Market St) Westfield San Francisco 415-986-0069 Centre www.johnsgrill.com 865 Market St. Old-fashioned San Francisco Food courts with great options establishment (including vegan, ramen, sushi, Hours: M-Sat 11am-10pm, Korean bbq and more!) Sun Noon-10pm
Local Guide 29 Kin Khao 55 Cyril Magnin Restaurants Near Yerba 415-362-7456 www.kinkhao.com Buena Center for the Arts Amazing award-winning Thai restaurant in the Parc 55 (make reservations) www.visityerbabuena.org/plan-a- Fang Hours: M-Sun 11:30am-2pm, M-Th visit/food-drink/ 660 Howard St 5:30pm-10pm, F-Sat 5:30pm-11pm 415-777-8568 www.opentable.com/landmark/ www.fangsanfrancisco.com King of Thai Noodle House restaurants-near-yerba-buena-center- Hours: M-F 11am-9:30pm, Sat-Sun 12-9pm 184 O'Farrell St for-the-arts 415-677-9991 Sanraku www.sanfranciscothaicuisine.com Amber 135 4th St Hours: M-Sun 10am–2:30pm, 25 Yerba Buena Ln 415-369-6166 5pm–10pm 415-777-0500 www.sanraku.com www.amber-india.com Hours: Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm, Puccini and Pinetti Hours: M-F 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm 129 Ellis St Sat-Sun 12-3pm, 5-10:30pm 415-392-5500 Thirsty Bear Brewing Co. www.pucciniandpinetti.com B Restaurant 661 Howard St “Cali-Italian” Lunch and Dinner 720 Howard St 415-974-0905 Hours: 11am-11pm 415-495-9800 www.thirstybear.com www.Bsanfrancisco.com Hours: M-F 11:30am-10pm, Ramen Underground Hours: Tues-Fri 11:30am-9pm, Sat-Sun 12-10pm 356 Kearny St Sat 12-6:30pm 415-999-2503 Tropisueño www.ramenunderground.com The Grove 75 Yerba Buena Ln Hours: M-Th 11am-9:30pm, F 11am- 690 Mission St 415-243-0299 10:30pm, Sat 11:30am-10pm 415-957-0558 www.tropisueno.com www.thegrovesf.com Hours: M-F 10am-10pm, Super Duper Burgers Hours: M-F 6:30am-11pm, Sat-Sun 11am-10pm 783 Mission St Sat-Sun 8am-11pm 415-882-1750 Zero Zero www.superduperburgers.com Delarosa 826 Folsom St Hours: M-F 11am–9:30pm, Sat-Sun 37 Yerba Buena Ln 415-348-8800 10:30am–11am 415-872-7363 www.zerozerosf.com Delarosasf.com Hours: Sun-Thurs 11:30am-10pm, Sushirrito Hours: Sun-Wed 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-11pm 388 Market St. #107 Thurs-Sat 11am-12am 415-805-6600 www.sushirrito.com Sushi burritos! Hours: M-F 11am-3pm
Tacorea 809 Bush St. 415-885-1325 www.tacoreasf.com Hours: M-F 11:30am–3pm, 6pm–9pm
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Restaurants near 16th Restaurants on 24th Street
street Mission Bart and near 24th St. BART Station Station
Indochine Vegan Basa Seafood Manivanh Thai Restaurant 508 Valencia St 3064 24th St 2732 24th St 415-701-0700 415-550-2388 415-824-6059 www.indochinevegan.com www.basaseafood.com www.manivanhthai.webs.com Hours: Tue.-Sun. Noon-10pm Hours: 11am-7:30pm Hours: M-F 11am-3pm, M-Sat 5pm-9:30pm, Closed Sunday Límon Dum Indian Soul Food 524 Valencia St 3111 24th St Mission Pie 415-252-0918 415-874-9045 2901 Mission St www.limonrotisserie.com www.dumsf.com 415-282-1500 Hours: 11am-11pm Hours: Tue-Sun 11am-10pm www.missionpie.com Hours: 7am-10pm Pork Store El Techo 3122 16th St 2516 Mission St Roosevelt Tamale Parlor 415-626-5523 415-550-6970 2817 24th St www.pscsf.com www.eltechosf.com 415-824-2600 Hours: 8:30am-4pm Hours: 4pm-10:30pm www.rooseveltsipneat.com Hours: Tue-Sat 5:30pm-9:30pm Sunflower Kazan 3111 16th St 2809 24th St Rosemund Sausage Grill 415-626-5022 415-282-2001 2832 Mission St www.sunflowersf.com www.kazan-san-francisco.sites. 415-970-9015 Hours: 11:30am-9:30am tablehero.com www.rosamundesausagegrill.com Hours: M-F 11:30am–2:30pm, 5–10pm, Hours: 11:30am-11pm Taqueria Pancho Villa Sat 11:30am–2:30pm, Sun. 5pm–10pm 3071 16th St Taqueria Vallarta 415-864-8840 La Traviata 3033 24th St www.sfpanchovilla.com 2854 Mission St 415-826-8116 Hours: 10am-Midnight 415-282-0500 www.taqueriavallartaonline.com www.latraviatasf.com Hours: 8am-1am Hours: 5pm-10:30pm Top Round Limon 2962 24th St 1001 S Van Ness Ave 415-780-3811 415-821-2134 www.eattopround.com www.limonrotisserie.com Hours: 8am-10pm Hours: M-F 11am-10pm, Sat-Sun 10am-10pm
Local Guide 31 Restaurants near African East Bay Restaurants American Arts and Culture Complex in the Fillmore
Black Bark BBQ We’ve suggested only a couple of the 1325 Fillmore St many great restaurants in the East 415-848-9055 Bay. Check outeastbayexpress.com for blackbarkbbq.com more options. Hours: Mon-Sun 11:30am-10pm Cosecha Japan Center 907 Washington St 1737 Post St Oakland, CA 94607 Don’t miss this—There are dozens of 510-452-5900 great options here! www.cosechacafe.com www.japancentersf.com/dining Hours: M-Sat 11am-3pm and 4:30pm-9pm Noir Lounge 581 Hayes St Los Cilantros 415-431-6647 at La Peña Cultural Center www.noir-sf.com 3105 Shattuck Ave Hours: Mon-Sun 4pm-12am Berkeley, CA 94705 510-990-6710 Sage Cafe www.loscilantrosrestaurant.com 340 Grove St Hours: W-Sun 11am-2pm and 415-252-9887 5:30pm-9pm bit.ly/2AKPUKP Hours: M-F 8am-8pm, Sat 10am-8pm, Reem’s Bakery Sun 10am-6pm inside Fruitvale Bart Plaza 3301 E 12th St #133 Sheba Restaurant & Lounge Oakland, CA 94601 1419 Fillmore St 510-852-9390 415-440-7414 www.reemscalifornia.com www.shebapianolounge.com Hours: Tue-Sat 8am-3pm Hours: Mon-Thurs 5pm-1am, Fri-Sat 5pm-2am, Sun 5pm-12am
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SF Bars
Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Oasis The Stud 133 Turk St 298 11th St 399 9th St 415-441-2922 415-795-3180 415-863-6623 www.auntcharlieslounge.com www.sfoasis.com www.studsf.com Hours: Noon-2am Hours: Wed-Thurs 6pm-Midnight, Fri- Hours: 5pm-2am Sat 6pm-3am, Sun 11am-9pm Farmer Browns The View Hotel Metropolis Old Devil Moon San Francisco Marriott Marquis 25 Mason St 3472 Mission St 39th Floor 415-409-3276 www.olddevilmoonsf.com 780 Mission St www.farmerbrownsf.com Hours: 5pm-Midnight 415-442-6003 Hours: M-F 8am–2pm, 5pm–9pm, www.sfviewlounge.com Sat-Sun 10am–2:30pm, 5–10pm PianoFight Hours: 4pm-1am 144 Taylor St Jones 415-816-3691 Twin Peaks Tavern 620 Jones St www.pianofight.com 401 Castro St 415-496-6858 Hours: Mon-Thu 5:00pm – 12:00 am, 415-864-9470 www.620-jones.com Fri- Sat 5:00 pm – 2:00 am www.twinpeakstavern.com Hours: 5pm-Midnight Hours: M-W Noon-2am, Smugglers Cove Th-Sat 8am-2am, Sun 10am-2am Last Drop Tavern 650 Gough St 550 Powell St 415-869-1900 Wild Side West 415-989-7131 www.smugglerscovesf.com 424 Cortland Ave www.lastdrophappyhour.com Hours: 5pm-1:15am 415-647-3099 Hours: Noon-2am www.wildsidewest.com The Eagle Hours: 2pm-2am Local Edition 398 12th St 691 Market St 415-814-2582 415-795-1375 www.sf-eagle.com www.localeditionsf.com Hours: 2pm-2am Hours: M-Sat 5pm-2am The Irish Bank Martuni’s Piano Bar 10 Mark Ln 4 Valencia St 415-788-7152 415-241-0205 www.theirishbank.com www.facebook.com/ Hours: 11:30am-2am Martunis-994554857261865 Hours: 4pm-2am
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Blue Bottle Coffee Philz Coffee 66 Mint St 399 Golden Gate Ave 510-653-3394 415-621-7000 Coffee Shops Near www.bluebottlecoffee.com/cafes/ www.philzcoffee.com Parc 55 Hotel mint-plaza Hours: 6am-5:30pm Hours: 6:30am-7:30pm Starbucks Barbary Coast Pastry & Coffee Peet’s Coffee 865 Market Street, C 26A 55 Cyril Magnin St 773 Market St 415-348-0940 415-0989-3888 415-530-2559 Hours: 4:30am-11pm Hours: 5:30am-7:30pm www.peets.com Hours: 5:30am-8pm
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Essentials
CVS Trader Joe’s Market St & 6th St 10 4th St 415-348-1814 415-536-7801 Hours: 8am-9pm Hours: 8am-9pm
Safeway Walgreens 2020 Market St 135 Powell St 415-861-7660 415-391-7222 Hours: 24hrs. off the Hours: 24hrs F Market Muni line
Target Metreon 789 Mission St 415-343-6272 Hours: 8am-10pm
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